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Author Brahimi, Denise.

Title Nadine Gordimer : Weaving Together Fiction, Women and Politics / Denise Brahimi
Published Cape Town : Juta Academic, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Preamble; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Proust's and Balzac's Way; Weaving Fiction; Irony, Derision and Paradox; 1. 1958-1998: A Journey through History; As it was in the beginning; A World of Strangers; The Late Bourgeois World; 2. Forty Years On; None to Accompany Me; The House Gun; 3. Man-Woman, Black-White: the Coexistence of Opposites; Black and White Activism; The Conservationist; Burger's Daughter; July's People; Man and Woman as a Couple; The Conservationist; A Guest of Honour
Selected Short Stories -- A Find, Sins of the Third Age, You Name ItMy Son's Story; A Sport of Nature; 4. Something Else Out There; Nature and Death; The Conservationist; On Art and Writing; Burger's Daughter; 5. Conclusion: Betrayal and Irony; Betrayal: Selected Short Stories -- Some Are Born to Sweet Delight, Oral History, A City of the Dead, A City of the Living, Jump; Self-Irony: A Soldier's Embrace; Bibliography; Translator's Notes; Index; Backcover
Summary A fascinating intersection of intellectual minds, this literary critique views the writing of Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer through the fresh perspective of a respected French academic. Available for the first time in English, this analysis introduces the important works of a South African activist for equality and political freedom to a new audience while creating a multinational reading experience
Notes Print version record
Subject Gordimer, Nadine -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Gordimer, Nadine fast
Subject Women and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
Literature
Women and literature
SUBJECT South Africa -- In literature
Subject South Africa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Everson, Vanessa
Shapiro, Cara
ISBN 9781920516505
1920516506
9781920499914
1920499911